Jean-Luc Boujon edited by Wassila Belhacine 07:12, May 08, 2022
It is the very new pride of the French gendarmerie: the Alpine A110, a small bomb which begins to equip the various road squadrons of France.
The racing car which can reach 260 km/h will give a whole new efficiency to the gendarmes in the face of road crime.
She purrs the 250 horsepower of the Alpine A110.
It's been a week since the gendarmes of the Loire received their new toy.
This intervention vehicle has impressive performance.
"We can go up to 260 km/h. And it goes from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 5 seconds. So it goes very quickly. It will make us more efficient, more dissuasive too, that's for sure. It's a beautiful tool, there is no photo," explains Constable Frédéric Jeanne.
"A high-speed interceptor vehicle"
The Alpine replaces the aging Mégane RS used for ten years by the police on the highway.
A state-of-the-art car made in France, which will be very useful, explains Colonel Erwann Eynault, who commands the Loire group.
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"We're going back to the fundamentals of the 1960s, in line with the Berlinette, which was the Gendarmerie's first rapid intervention vehicle. So it's always a source of pride to drive in a French car, which is high-performance and also beautiful. Above all, we recover a high-speed interception vehicle and for us it is essential. Because there is more and more speeding. Between 2019 and today, there is an increase in major excesses. speed, beyond 40, even 50 km / h, 30% increase on average", continues Erwann Eynault at the microphone of Europe 1.
In the Loire, the number of accidents has exploded: 130 since the beginning of the year with a balance sheet of 8 dead and 160 injured.
In half of the cases, speed was the cause.